VitaMix is synonymous with quality kitchen gear. Chef’s crave the handy utensil which makes marvelous soups and sauces, and makes haste with all your blending needs. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or turning over a new raw, vegan, or vegetarian leaf, the TurboBlend VS is just the tool for you. Easily create a new variety of dishes with tremendous flavor and nutrition, from Tropical Avocado Salsa to Chocolate Dream Pie.

We are offering one very lucky craveDFW reader the TurboBlend VS which is valued at $449.00 as our gift of the day as we count down to Christmas Eve. Tell us what you desperately want to make with this amazing high powered blending wonder. We will choose a commenter at random Friday, December 14, 2012. You will have this gift just in time for Christmas.

I need a Vitamix, so I can turn over a new leaf next year and use all the Herbalife I got last fall to improve my health and vitality. It would also be good for me to use for new recipes. I am trying to get out of my comfort zone and learn new recipes and get out of my cooking rut.

I would make fruit smoothies, fresh pesto, shrimp bisque, and wild mushroom soup. Thank you for the chance to win this awesome machine. I get it rubbed in my face every year at the state fair, that I don’t have $500 to spend on kitchen equipment. I hope this contest remedies this.

I’ve been ogling this baby for awhile now. Honestly, the thing I want it for the most is to make New Mexico red chile sauce for enchiladas. You can make the sauce with other blenders, but you have to strain out the bits of skin afterwards. With this bad boy, it obliterates any trace of skin, leaving a silky-smooth sauce.

And that’s just one thing of many! I’m also thinking of all the amazing craft cocktails that could be made with this. I wonder if I could use it to make a big batch of Pisco Sour? Hmm….

I would use this wonderful piece of machinery to create wonderful spice rubs and sauces – toasted pumpkin seed pesto, chile oils, chili rubs for grilling. I guess the list could go on and on – but this would be an awesome addition to our kitchen.

I’d really love to make my own nut milk (ha!) and cashew cream, as well my own hot sauce. My blender/food processor combo appliance bit the dust a couple of months ago and I miss it so much. A Vitamix would be the ultimate replacement and a much-valued asset in the kitchen.

All those fruits I froze over the summer are dying to be made into a smoothie, but my current piece of garbage blender can’t handle the frozen berries. Also, things with booze. But I swear, it’s mainly for the berries. Honest.

I would make my foie gras Pana cotta with Riesling gelee and keep going from there. The next use would be for summer cool fruit or veggie terrines .Also would use it for the softer ingredients used in charcuterie. My pumpkin soup with chanterelles and hazelnuts would become silk because of it.

I make myself a healthy smoothie/shake every morning and keep going thru blenders. I’d love to have something that could really handle the frozen fruit. Plus, I’d really like to try the juicing process.

My son’s blender died this year, so I was looking at getting a Vitamix for myself to make soups (like butternut squash), sauces (like poblano cream), powdered sugar, and smoothies (like mango-banana-pineapple) and give him my old blender.

I went to a dinner party a few months ago where a strawberry ice cream made in a vitamix was served and it was delicious! The shocking part was that it was made with tomatoes and it was impossible to detect in the final product…..the best possible way to get your veggies 😉 I would love to try my hand at this and other delicious healthy recipes.

I want to make everything in it! My favorite thing to make for breakfast is a smoothie. It’s a great way to sneak in some veggies! My blender is breaking from using it so much so this would be a HUGE blessing. Thanks so much for the opportunity!